Spring in
Cascadia
Spring is our favorite time of the year, and not
just because this is the month of our birthday. This is the season of rebirth,
of the new start. Spring is the season of hope. It is the time when gardens
start to come alive. Here in Cascadia, our climate is moderate, so our
transition of the seasons at this time of year is more gradual: longer days,
enough warmth in the soil to cause seeds to sprout, more breaks in our cloudy
weather regime. To celebrate Spring in Cascadia, Cascadia Artpost presents four
artistamps illustrating flowers from last year's spring garden: Dicentra
uniflora (common name: bleeding heart), Helleboras ericsmithii
(common name: hellebore), Phlox paniculata (common name: phlox),
and Crocus vernus (common name: crocus).
One of our favorite poets of Cascadia, the late
William Stafford (1914-1993), more often was inspired by the other three
seasons, but here is a poem of his fitting for spring. It is taken from the
collection Learning to Live in the World, Earth Poems by William
Stafford:
THE DREAM OF NOW
When you wake to the dream of
now
from night and its other
dream,
you carry day out of the
dark
like a flame.
When spring comes north, and
flowers
unfold from earth and its even
sleep,
you lift summer on with your
breath
lest it be lost ever so
deep.
Your life you live by the light you
find
and follow it on as well as you
can,
carrying through darkness wherever you
go
your one little fire that will start
again.
~ William Stafford, 1991
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